Creating a 32bit Wineprefix

Unvarying7026

I downloaded Little Fighter 2 (LF2) and followed the instructions by placing it in the Windows Installers folder, then installing it within Batocera. Whenever I started the game it would freeze exactly when loading the file “data\henry_wind.dat”. After a little research I fell upon this article that tells you what you need to install in order to get the game to work.

The first requirement is to set wine to create a 32bit Wine environment and then install a couple of winetricks. I have followed Batocera’s instructions here. I run the command export WINEARCH=win32then batocera-wine windows tricks '/userdata/saves/windows/proton/Little Fighter 2.exe.wine' mono-complete as this is one of the various things I need to download. I am then met with this error:

warning: wine cmd.exe /c echo '%AppData%' returned empty string, error message "wine: WINEARCH set to win32 but '/userdata/saves/windows/proton/Little Fighter 2.exe.wine' is a 64-bit installation."

So now I am trying to figure out how to make Little Fighter 2.exe.wine a 32bit wineprefix, but I can’t find a command within Batocera to do so. Everywhere online gives commands that Batocera doesn’t have such as winecfg.

I am new to the scene of Linux, Batocera and the like, so if I am missing something please let me know. If there is a way to create a 32bit Wineprefix absolutely tell me so I can learn. Any help is appreciated.

Atari

Unvarying7026 I am new to the scene of Linux, Batocera and the like, so if I am missing something please let me know. If there is a way to create a 32bit Wineprefix absolutely tell me so I can learn. Any help is appreciated.

This is like the worst thing you could be trying for the first time then, lol. Wine in Batocera is an experimental support package, included by virtue of some emulators requiring it. It’s not made to be pretty or easy for the end-user, it’s assume you’re already intimately familiar with Wine before using it.

There is currently no support for 32-bit Wine packages in Batocera. Theoretically, if you carry over all of the 32-bit dependencies from another distribution and put it into Batocera, then you could do it, but it’s far beyond what an end-user, let alone a new user, would be expected to know how to do.

Best bet is to keep those troublesome Windows applications to a dedicated Windows install and use Batocera for its intended purpose: playing retro games.